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CCHIT Confident in Becoming Accredited EHR Certifying Body
March 3, 2010 12:50 PM by Frank Irving
Statement from Alisa Ray, executive director, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Having reviewed the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding certifying bodies, we feel confident about [CCHIT's] prospects of becoming accredited. Read More...
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HHS Releases NPRM on Testing and Certifying EHRs
March 3, 2010 12:40 PM by Frank Irving
On March 2 the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) outlining the proposed approach for establishing a certification program to test and certify electronic health records (EHRs). In an Read More...
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ObamaCare: The Threat to Physician Autonomy
March 1, 2010 6:49 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Richard Amerling, MD, a nephrologist practicing in New York City The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from those most intimately involved Read More...
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The Cost of COBRA
February 16, 2010 5:40 PM by Frank Irving
Don't let it keep you from getting proper health care. Guest commentary from Daniel Touizer, CEO and founder of Cinergy Health Nearly one in five Americans are unemployed and many have been jobless for months. As a result, President Obama's 2010 budget Read More...
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Top 10 Health Law Issues for 2010
February 8, 2010 4:09 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Stephen W. Bernstein, a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP The year 2010 brings heightened health care focus on compliance, reform efforts and enforcement. This article breaks down the top 10 issues of this Read More...
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Saying No More to ‘Slash-and-Burn’ Reporting
February 1, 2010 4:05 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Robert N. Mitchell, managing editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Executives Remember all of the yelling and screaming that occurred last year during public meetings about health care reform? Remember how that dialogue went? Read More...
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Companion Guides are Major Obstacles to Automating Health Care Transactions
January 20, 2010 5:02 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Randal J. Roat, CHBME, board member and past-president of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association Why is it that I can put a credit card in a machine halfway around the world and get cash, yet the health care industry Read More...
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On the Clock
January 15, 2010 4:01 PM by Frank Irving
Whoever said, "If not for the last minute, nothing would ever get done" may have been onto something. An intriguing set of interrelated events could have a major impact on passage of health care reform legislation over the short term. And Ted Kennedy Read More...
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C-SPAN Requests Access to Health Care Talks
January 5, 2010 8:41 PM by Frank Irving
Now that the Senate has passed its health care bill, the push is on to complete reconciliation with the House's bill before President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address next month. Those deliberations are likely to take place behind closed Read More...
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AHA Issues Statement on Meaningful Use
January 4, 2010 3:01 PM by Frank Irving
Association voices concerns about hospitals' ability to access HIT financing. Guest commentary from Rick Pollack, executive vice president, American Hospital Association America's hospitals have serious concerns that the new health information technology Read More...
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The Solution to Lowering Health Care Costs
December 23, 2009 4:15 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Daniel Touizer, founder and CEO of Cinergy Health Healthy Americans may account for only 8 percent of the population, but these 24 million people are the answer to saving America billions of dollars on unnecessary health care expenditures Read More...
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Preparing for a Hurricane That May Blow Over
November 23, 2009 8:50 PM by Frank Irving
Physicians must be educated on proper documentation to meet ICD-10 code-set specificity and payer-coverage policies. Guest commentary from Holly Louie, RN, CHBME, PCS, corporate compliance officer at Practice Management, Inc., in Boise, Idaho The reimbursement Read More...
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Mammography and the Right to Choose
November 20, 2009 2:55 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, a daughter, a sister and a nurse. I am also a survivor. At the age of 43 a routine screening mammogram picked up an abnormality in my left breast that turned Read More...
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What PAWA Would Mean to Employers
November 13, 2009 11:38 AM by Frank Irving
The Protecting America's Workers Act of 2009, if passed by Congress, would dramatically alter the regulatory regime. Guest commentary from Eric J. Conn and Robert C. Gombar, partners in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, based in Washington, Read More...
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Building a Foundation for Health Care Transformation
November 12, 2009 10:56 AM by Frank Irving
Evidence-based medicine will improve the quality of care and impact of each health care dollar spent. Guest commentary from Marc Perlman, g lobal vice president, Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry, Oracle The U.S. health care industry is challenged Read More...
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